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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jul 17, 2018 18:39:21 GMT
Just finished "Old Mans War". Just an excellent book and really falls in with my sci fi style. As a matter of fact I am going to now go on to kindle and buy the rest of the books in that series. Okay, I'll also check it out. P.S. Well, I've read a bit, ...and am not so happy. I'll read on and hope it doesn't develop as it threatens. P.S. 2 Okay, this is not for me. I haven't finished it, but think I can say so much. I will finish it though. P.S. 3 I've finished it. I don't think a review is appropriate here. But I think I've learned a bit (for my own writing). Both what I absolutely don't want to do, and... what you apparently can get away with. Also, in that context, I've noticed my own writing makes me read differently. I learn much more by reading than I did before I started to write in earnest. The other side is that I'm not always so unqualifiedly entertained as I could be before.
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Post by mattig89ch on Jul 19, 2018 10:52:56 GMT
Not as big a fan of the teasing going on, very early int the book. But, so far, the narrator has made it quite enjoyable. He's so over the top about the situations, and his speaking. The biggest downside, for me, is his lack of voice range. He has 4-5 voices he can use, and he has to re-use them a lot. So I'm hearing the same voices for different characters. Really takes me out of it. On top of that, those voices have the same 3-4 emotions to them.
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Post by Beerfish on Jul 22, 2018 1:15:19 GMT
I just finished 'The Last Colony' which was not quite as good as the 1st two books in the series, a few reaches, a few flaws, some writing style I did not like as much. It was still decent just not as good as the 1st two. I am now starting this one:
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Post by Obadiah on Jul 22, 2018 23:02:14 GMT
Scoundrels - Timothy Zahn Essentially Ocean's Eleven in Star Wars. Between the end of A New Hope and the Empire Strikes Back, with the galaxy reeling from the destruction of Alderaan and the mysterious Imperial super weapon, Han Solo finds himself still on the run from Jabba the Hutt. To pay him off, he undertakes a daring heist with an assortment of companions of dubious affiliation and questionable loyalty against a powerful intergalactic gangster in the hopes of making a big enough score. This is a fun novel, with only a few completely implausible plot twists, full of feints and double blinds, that escalates to a page-turning climax as the "plan" comes together, or completely falls apart. Who thought it was a good idea to have Han Solo be chased by a giant globe while cracking whip?
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Post by Beerfish on Jul 26, 2018 3:01:33 GMT
I finished 'Zoes tale' and am now reading this:
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Post by dmc1001 on Jul 26, 2018 22:40:23 GMT
I read this many years ago but recently someone gave me the entire series.
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Post by Atemporal Vanguardian-Debugger on Jul 31, 2018 6:30:04 GMT
Sigh... Still bloody waiting for it to get here. Finally! READING
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Post by Beerfish on Jul 31, 2018 15:23:08 GMT
Finished "The human division" and have just started reading this which I think is the last in the series of books.
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Post by Liadan on Aug 2, 2018 15:31:28 GMT
I`m reading "Time of contempt":
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Aug 2, 2018 18:27:32 GMT
The last time I read novels it was Asimov's Foundation series, the original trilogy, in 2011. New videos about Asimov that you might find interesting. Asimov to sci-fi is like J.R.R.Tolkien to Fantasy. Also now I remember that about the same year I also read this novel:
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Post by Iakus on Aug 4, 2018 1:12:40 GMT
Despite playing D&D for two decades, I have never read a Drizzt book before...
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Post by cheeseandonion on Aug 4, 2018 1:58:20 GMT
Book 7 of wheel of time . Feel like dropping at this point, there are very few characters that draw my interest at this point.
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Post by Nayawk on Aug 4, 2018 5:33:14 GMT
Despite playing D&D for two decades, I have never read a Drizzt book before... good lord, I read that years ago when I was about 14. Now I feel old.
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Post by Obadiah on Aug 4, 2018 8:22:01 GMT
Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)The story of Freya, born in transit on a generation ship, near the final stage of centuries long journey on one of humanity's first expeditions to colonize another solar system. The book began with, I cannot stress this enough, an unbelievably annoying childlike present tense third person prose - one that mirrored Freya's apparent developmentally challenged toddler mind. I must have started and put the book down at least twice, before picking it back up to try again. Eventually, I was rewarded with a narrator's voice that developed into a weirdly dispassionate, sometimes hilarious, but always insightful analysis of consciousness, criticism of man's self destructive tendencies, and expansionist delusions. As entertaining as that was, the last chapter dragged on needlessly, with exaggerated and wordy descriptions of feelings of some of the most mundane experiences imaginable, as if his publisher told the author that he had to make a 500 page quota. Maybe he lost a bet or something.
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Post by mattig89ch on Aug 4, 2018 10:53:04 GMT
Just started this one: So far, I'm rather enjoying it.
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Post by Iakus on Aug 4, 2018 14:20:52 GMT
Book 7 of wheel of time . Feel like dropping at this point, there are very few characters that draw my interest at this point. Yeah that's the start of a bad patch. It gets much better when Brandon Sanderson takes over the series.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2018 16:04:48 GMT
Went ahead and started a second reading of this: Haven't read it in a couple of years.
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Post by mousestalker on Aug 5, 2018 22:13:03 GMT
Re-reading Dune. I stopped reading the series with Dune Messiah and never picked up any of the others. A good friend insists that the later ones are worth reading.
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Post by Liadan on Aug 7, 2018 17:00:02 GMT
"Deadhouse Gates" - Steven Erikson.
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Post by Terminator Force on Aug 8, 2018 23:53:16 GMT
Already feeling like another playthrough of ME1 and 2. This here is my most played and loved Mass Effect song. Very uplifting vibe. EDIT - wrong thread.
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Post by docsteely on Aug 10, 2018 14:06:29 GMT
Re-reading Dune. I stopped reading the series with Dune Messiah and never picked up any of the others. A good friend insists that the later ones are worth reading. Loved "Children of Dune" and " God Emperor of Dune". The rest not so much...
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Post by correctamundo on Aug 12, 2018 19:39:29 GMT
Re-reading Dune. I stopped reading the series with Dune Messiah and never picked up any of the others. A good friend insists that the later ones are worth reading. Loved "Children of Dune" and " God Emperor of Dune". The rest not so much... Wait, what? You didn't like DUNE? The first book? So i finished this one here gem. And this one.
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